Our Team

Dr. Bizu Gelaye is an Associate Professor of Epidemiology and Psychiatry at Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health,  Harvard Medical School and the Chester M. Pierce, MD Division of Global Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital. He is an associate member of the Broad Institute’s Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research Program and teaching faculty at the Center for Bioethics in the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School.
Dr. Gelaye’s research makes innovative use of population-based data and biomarkers to understand resilience and risk factors for neuropsychiatric disorders. His work, in collaboration with multidisciplinary researchers, focuses on how trauma affects health across the life course and intergenerationally. Dr. Gelaye’s research focuses on the application of psychometric methods in cross-cultural settings. Moreover, Dr. Gelaye is a highly regarded mentor preparing outstanding, diverse public health scientists and leaders. He served as program director of the Multidisciplinary International Research Training (MIRT) program for over 10 years. Currently, he is the program director of the Mississippi Delta Partnership in Public Health Program and the associate director of the Global Initiative for Neuropsychiatric Genetics Education in Research (GINGER) Program.

Elizabeth Levey graduated from Stanford University with a BAS in biology and economics. She received her medical degree from the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine. Dr. Levey completed the combined adult psychiatry residency, and child and adolescent psychiatry fellowship programs at Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and McLean Hospitals. She is now a staff psychiatrist at MGH, where she specializes in global mental health research.
As a medical student, Dr. Levey received a Doris Duke Clinical Scholars Research Fellowship to study mother-to-child transmission of HIV in Ghana. During her residency, she traveled to Liberia to study trauma and recovery among post-conflict Liberian youth. Dr. Levey currently has a K23 career development award through the NIMH to study perinatal interventions to decrease intergenerational transmission of trauma in resource-limited settings.

Dr. Prom is a global psychiatry research fellow in the BUMC-MGH global psychiatry clinical research training program and an instructor in psychiatry at MGH/Harvard Medical School. Her clinical and research focuses are in the areas of psychosomatic medicine, health disparities, and the care of underserved and Spanish-speaking populations. She received her MD from Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, completed psychiatry residency training in the Harvard MGH/McLean Adult Psychiatry Residency Program, and completed clinical fellowship training in the MGH Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry Fellowship.
Dr. Prom’s research is focused on mental health systems and services development in low-resource settings, specifically the integration of mental health care into medical care and sustainable training of non-mental health professionals. She has completed collaborative research projects locally and internationally and is currently focused on overcoming limited access to mental health care in perinatal populations in Peru through the development and implementation of an integrated perinatal mental health care system. Her research, teaching, and clinical work have led to journal and book chapter publications, national conference presentations, research training grant support, and clinical and research awards and honors.